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mSm STATE ni3T-; R- l '' CiS"' 1 ., rr;;
Hf I 73rd Year No. 194 Good Morning! It's Friday, May 1, 1981 3 Sections 20 Pages 25 Cents
I Airport may expand in face of Ozark cuts
M I ByRegtaaMcEoery
M 1 Missourian staff writer
H I After hearing a recommendation for expan--
M a sion of the terminal building at Columbia Re- -
H j gional Airport, members of the Columbia Air- -
H m port Advisory Board were told the airport's
H a only scheduled carrier might lose its federal
M 1 subsidy in July.
H I Earlier, airport officials had expected the
M I federal subsidy to Ozark Air lines for its Co--
H i lumbia to St. Louis flights to continue at least
M I until 1984. However, with Congress moving
M 1 more quickly on budget cuts recommended by
fl I President Reagan, an acceleration of that sub- -
M M sidy rollback is considered a possibility.
M m Airline deregulation has been one of the main
thrusts of conservative efforts to reduce the
amount of government supervision of and sub-sidy
to American businesses.
Airport Manager A. O. " Pete" Cappadony, in
response to a question, acknowledged the Ozark
subsidy could end as early as July. However, he
said, even if the subsidy is dropped, Ozark is
not planning to abandon flights to Columbia.
He said he had talked to Ozark officials, who
said they had a strong interest in continuing
flights into Columbia because of traffic gener-ated
by the city's colleges as well as that gener-ated
by the state government offices at Jeffer-son
City.
The special meeting of the advisory board
was called Wednesday to hear officials of Horn-er
and Schifrin, a St. Louis engineering firm,
present its preliminary study recommending
that the Columbia Regional Airport terminal
building be extended 5,663 square feet ( 509.65
square meters).
The preliminary report didn't seek to put a
pricetag on the expansion. However, in the air-port's
five- ye- ar plan, the expansion was bud-geted
for $ 750,000.
The firm's recommendations were based on
its evaluation of space in the existing facility as
well as interviews with companies that operate
from the airport.
Specifically, Ozark Air Lines and Air Mid-west,
the two airlines that fly out of the airport,
requested additional space. The extra area, to-taling
1,880 square feet ( 169 square meters),
would provide for each a two- positi- on ticket
counter, access to the main ticket lobby, an of-fice,
baggage room, direct access to the apron,
and additional storage space.
The rental car agencies, National Car Rental,
Avis and Hertz, requested an additional 300
square feet ( 27 square meters) for offices.
The engineering firm also recommended ad-ditional
space be allocated for a permanent
gate lounge and security screening area, a sec-ond
commuter facility, handicapped restroom
facilities, circulation space and an associated
utility area.
In addition, the firm recommended that the
present airport restaurant be moved and ex-panded
to accommodate the handicapped.
Presently, the restaurant is accessible only by
a staircase with no provision for the hand- -
icapped as required by law. Horner & Schifrin I
suggested that, if the restaurant remained in its B
present location, an elevator be installed.
The board didn't question the need for ex-- 1
panded terminal space and promised to issue a
list of priority areas that should be included in
the proposed addition. I
The report recommended the expansion al-- 1
though it noted that flights in and out of Colum- - 1
bia have dropped in recent years. From 1978 to
1980, the number of passengers processed
through the airport dropped 34 percent. Airport
traffic has picked up somewhat since the end of
the Ozark strike.
Despite the prospect of an end to the Ozark 5
subsidy, Cappadony said expanded facilities at
the airport would help business pick up further. I i Repression
: can result
m I in amnesia
K - ; m But trauma, illness
HI : m also affect memory I ' r--' H By Karen Ervln H Missourian staff writer
H M Mark was an outstanding citizen in H H his home community in Missouri. H s& He had a good job and attended H church regularly. He married his high H II school sweetheart, and together they I H were rearing a charming family. But
H Hf one day, Mark disappeared. H eg His wife called the local police, who H found his car abandoned outside the I iH cy lhnits. For sue weeks they
H KS searched for him, and, at the end of
that time, they found him, curled in a
fetal position beneath a pew in his
church. He was muttering a man's
name, saying he had to till turn.
Mark was suffering a form of amne-sia
called multiple personality. Al-though
his family and community I knew him by one name, a business as-sociate
in a different city knew him by
the
church.
name Mark was muttering in the
According to Dr. Ahmed Faheem,
chief of the general psychiatry section
and assistant profassor c psychiatry
at Truman Veterans Hospital, amnesia -
I Inslg& t
I has several forms and several degrees I lip of severity.
III " The memory has three different I Mil components," says Dr. Fahsem.
H " First, it registers an event through I HI perception. Then it retains that infor- - I IIS mation, either for long-- or short- ter- m I WM use, depending on its significance. I HI " Finally, it has the ability to pull out I ! that information for recall when it is I associated with an ongoing event If a I III person has difficulty in the recall com- - I : M ponent, he has some form of amnesia." I ' M Amnesia can be of two types or--
M jM ganic or dissociative. I $ m Organic amnesia usually occurs I lH when there is a change in the metabo- - I W& lism or other organic insult to the I 1 brain. It may be caused by a concus-- I j sion, degeneration of brain tissue ( se--
Bk M nility), epilepsy, or drug3 and alcohol.
Hi The organic amnesia often develops B W& slowly and is less dramatic than the n i dissociative variety.
HI H The distinguishing factor in organic
I III amnesia is that orientation is impaired
HI HI for recent events. Appointments may
W i be missed, or things may be easily
Sg misplaced. Paranoia can occur if the
( M individual can't dearly appreciate his
jjjjl& k fM environment, and these sufferers often
Bjk. B feel more comfortable talking about
fflsk HI the past than the present
ssl!!!!! 1 " Organic amnesia must be severe to lllllljjl get at the long- ter- m memory," says
JJIHf j Dr. Faheem. " That is why older people
terfgjxjr W$ who suffer from this talk about the P HI past a lot They are more comfortable
with it and remember tt much better."
HI Dissociative amnesia, on the other
ill hand, has no physiological or pathclog- -
WM ical reason for occurring. Usually the 3fIII individual has problems with events or
111 feelings that are painful and represses
llll them to avoid any anxiety they may
WM Mark' 3 multiple personality was a pp dissociative form cf amnesia. As a 0. W young man, his strong urge for adven-- ii ffp ture often caused problems with his
m$ Wm family. When he entered the military
ffla WM service, he had the freedom to expen- -
1 S ment with many lifestyles. After he re--
Hlf WM, turned home, he suppressed his wild
Wm B urges and settled down to a job and a
U To Mark, life was black and white.
11 He couldn't live out bis fantasies and
11 maintain his image as a pious, gener--
ous family man at the same time. He
m adopted a second personality mat aV--
ff lowed him to forget those resptBt'ibui- -
-- M ties and return to the lifestyle he had
wj maintained in the service.
jjH " Dissociative amnesia victfa3 as- -
3$ sume they have forgotten about events pi in their livu, but they hsra just put a
. jg lid on them," says Dr. Faheem. " Of- -
yM tuepn, aganaiont, hebrutgd& meilapreresvoenntwwililllwbipriengthiet
ifS memory out and, to hmx it seems as if
Hi ( See DREAM- LIK- E, Page 8A)
tm
The mother of slain Northern Ireland consta-ble
Gary Martin comforts a young relative
outside the church in Bangor where funeral
Prisoners
atrophic;
skirmishes
hit Ulster
UP! telcsbotss
BELFAST, Northern Ireland ( AP) Jailed Irish Re-publican
Army guerrilla Bobby Sands was reported " de-teriorating
at an alarming rate" Thursday, and his moth-er
promised to let him die of starvation rather than
compromise. Britain refused to give in and warned it
would use all means available against violence.
Young Catholics lobbed gasoline and acid bombs at po-lice
patrols and set vehicles afire as Pope John Paul H's
special envoy, the Rev. John Magee, left for Rome after
Sands and three other jailed guerrillas rejected the ponti-ffs
appeal to end their hunger strike.
British officials reported Sands, without food for 61
days, and IRA guerrilla Francis Hughes, who joined the
fast 46 days ago, were both " deteriorating at an alarming
rate." Two other guerrillas, Raymond McCreesh and Pat
O'Hara, joined the strike 39 days ago demakiding political- statu- s
on grounds they were convicted in their fight to
drive the British from Northern Ireland.
As death neared for Sands, his mother, Kosaleen,
services were held Thursday. Below, fellow
members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary
bear the victim's coffin.
emerged from visiting her son in the Maze Prison near
Belfast and said he was " prepared for the end." Sands
told her not to let doctors try to save his life when he
slipped into a coma unless Britain granted the guerril-las'
demands for political prisoner status.
In London, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher reiter-ated
her tough line in the House of Commons and said,
" There can be no question of granting political status to
convicted criminals now or at all."
Britain's Northern Ireland secretary Humphrey Atkins
said the Provisional wing of the outlawed IRA was pursu-ing
a " calculated, cold- blood- ed campaign.. . to enable
them to exercise control of Catholic area and present
themselves as alone capable of protecting threatened peo-ple."
Atkins said the IRA had plans to evacuate residents in
one area of Belfast, gut their vacant houses and blame
" others" to stir up more sectarian fear and violence.
Fluids restored
ByL. Trager
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY Temporarily
at least, Ellis Fischel State Cancer
Hospital has found itself an able cham-pion
in the joust for state funds.
The state House had approved a 1981- 8- 2
budget proposal $ 554,000 below this
year's allocation for the hospital, but
Thursday the Senate Appropriations
Committee " reinstated $ 370,000 to its
version of the spending plan.
Committee Chairman Sen. Edwin
Dirck, D- S- t. Ann, carried Ellis Fis-chers
case to the panel.
" They're adequately funded from
the Senate," he said of the hospital's
revised budget. " They were not ad-equately
funded from the House."
A hospital spokesman said Fischel
officials will make no comment until
the budget clears the Legislature.
If the Senate committee proposal be-comes
law, the Columbia facility will
get about 94 percent of the state money
it received this year. The House ver-sion,
passed earlier this month, would
cut Fischel's state funding by about 17
percent , ,
The " difference reflects varying
views on how much the hospital can in-crease
bill collection from patients, in-surance
companies and government
programs. The pouse proposal as-sumes
the hospital can collect more
money owed it, allowing it to maintain
its budget with less state help.
" The House and the governor ex-pected
too much of ( Fischel) when
they established the appropriation,"
Dirck said. " We certainly expect them
to make every effort to collect The
problem is, they deal with a lot of indi-gent
people, sometimes people who've
exhausted all Medicaid funds."
Dirck took Gov. Christopher Bond's
budget recommendation, calling for a
10 percent cut in state money, as ine
starting point for calculations. UircK i reduced by $ 100,000 the amount the
hospital would have to raise from bill 1
collection, renewing that amount of 1
state funds. 1
Under the Senate committee propos-- ' J
al, Fischel's spending for staff travel, I Ig
vehicle purchases and office expenses i
were cut about $ 36,000. That is " really 111
negligible in terms of the total bud-- e
get" and similar reductions are being V
made throughout state government, '
said Ken McClure, committee staff di-rector.
Committee members, working
quickly and informally in anticipation
of a long weekend, silently accepted
Dirck's suggestions on the hospital's 5
funding.
The committee recommendation will 1
probably go to the Senate floor next
week. Any differences between Senate
and House figures would have to be re--
solved by a conference committee. 5
" The figure we came out with is a
solid one," Dirck said, " and the House
knows it."
Regardless c the budget battle's i
ootctana. FlftcJKiisbcsindtDlOEenjcre P
than 30 " phantom" employees with I
nine or 10 years' " seniority."
" For some reason, for a good num-ber
of years, they've had 32 more ( in
the total of full- tim- e employees) than
they've had on the payroll," Dirck
said.
The state hasn't been giving the hos-pital
money for this " paper" staff, but
the discrepancy is " deceiving in pre-paring
the budget," Dirck said.
The committee discovered the error
when it took an especially hard look at
agency operations this year. How the
phantoms got on the books is a mys-tery.
" These people just don't exist and
never have," Dirck said. " We can't I
quite track down whathappened."
Camcer I
Laetrile study discounts cure claims
WASHINGTON ( AP) - The first
government- controlle- d human tests of
the purported cancer treatment Lae-trile
shows that it " has not produced
any substantial benefit," scientists
said Thursday.
" Laetrile has been tested. It is not ef-fective,"
Dr. Charles Moertel of the
Mayo Clinic told the meeting of the
American Society of Clinical Oncology.
The trial, sponsored by the National
Cancer Institute, hoped to settle de-cades
of controversy surrounding Lae-trile
and its usefulness in treating can-cer.
Moertel said that of 160 patients stud-ied,
104 died during the trial. In only
one case was there a partial response
to the treatment, and that response
was questionable.
Moertel said that Laetrile produced
no substantial benefits, proving inef-fective
in extending life span, relieving
symptoms or improving the outcome
of patients.
Five institutes are taking part in the I
$ 500,000 study with the Mayo Clinic of
Rochester, Minn., organizing the test 1
procedures. 1
Animal tests generally show Lae- - 1
trile, made from the pits of apricots
and other fruits and nuts, is ineffective E
against cancer, be said. And most doc-- i
tors and scientists also don't think it
works, he added.
But Laetrile has been used by hun-dreds
of thousands of persons, with
many testifying to its benefits. DeVita
said many sensible people are con-fused
by the differences between these
claims and scientific opinion.
The VS. Food and Drug Administra-tion
is trying to bar the use of Laetrile,
saying its safety and effectiveness is
unproven. But at the same time 23
states have approved its use within
their borders.
By Janice Kabaar
BStesearian ctaff writer
An international team of anthropolo-gists
led by University anthropology
professor Robert Benfer has excavated
the oldest known village in the Western
Hemisphere on the ban- en- , central
coast of Peru.
' Paloma is the only place in the
world where anybody has excavated a
whole series of such ancient skele-tons,"
said Benfer, who has been in-volved
in the project since 1976. " It's
not just an isolated burial here and an-other
isolated burial there. We have
skeletons of children. We have whole
families buried in a house."
The recovered human skeletons,
some as old as 7,700 years, are so well
preserved that Benfer's team was able
to suggest that the people who settled
the site, Paloma, knew how to manipu-late
plants, a term used by anthropolo-gists
to describe a stage that falls short
of cultivation. Until Benfer's discovery
researchers believed people who
formed the earliest villages were hunt-ers
and gatherers who left overpop- ulate- d
highlands.
Preservation at the site is so com-plete
that many of more than 220 skele-tons
excavated from 56 houses have
skin, hair and intestinal contents in-tact,
allowing the scientists to deter-mine
what foods the people ate.
Prior to this finding, the oldest hu-man
skeletons in the Western. Hemi-sphere
were some 3,500- 6,00- 0 years old
discovered in Southern California and
northern Mexico.
Benfer's fellow researcher, Freder-ick
A. Engel, originally discovered the
site. Benfer and Engel started their as-sociation
in 1970, when Benfer ap-proached
the National Science Founda-tion
for a grant for further exploration
of the Paloma site. Before that time,
Benfer and a group of graduate stu-dents
were studying the skeletons Eng-el
had found at another site.
Glendon Weir, an anthropologist and
botanist from Texas A& M University,
analyzed plants from the site. Engel,
Weir and University anthropologist Al-ice
Benfer, Benfer's former wife,
served as co- investiga- tors on excava-tions
that began in 1976.
Benfer and the team began the ex-ploration
believing the people of Palo- -
" --- k. -- -
ma were hunter- gathere- rs and fishers.
The evidence preserved for centuries
by the totally dry, arid climate makes
it probable that the villagers were in-corporating
not only wild plants but
peanuts, squash and peppers into their
diet as many as 5,000 years ago.
People occupied Paloma in at least
three periods separated by several
hundred years dating about 43, 55 and
77 or more centuries ago. Yet burials,
made in houses where the people lived,
were almost never disturbed, he said.
The archaeologically important find-ings
bold special interest for the Pe-ruvian
government. A grant for $ 110,- 00- 0
from the National Science
Foundation has been awarded to Benf-er
and Weir to continue analysis of
their data.
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4: 30 pan. Baseball, Rock
Bridge High School vs. Hickman
at Hickman field.
Tickets $ 1 adults, 50 cents
ninth grade and under.
6: 30 pun- - Dinner Theatre,
" Move Over Mrs. Markham," at
Stephens College Stamper Com-!
mons. Tickets available at Dor- a- y
Street box office, $ 9.50 gener-al
holders.
public, $ 4 season ticket
7: 33 pjn. Play, " Two by Two,"
at Stephens College Warehouse
Theater. Tickets available' at
Dorsey Street box office, $ 3.50
general public, $ 1.75 students
and senior citizens.
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mSm STATE ni3T-; R- l '' CiS"' 1 ., rr;;
Hf I 73rd Year No. 194 Good Morning! It's Friday, May 1, 1981 3 Sections 20 Pages 25 Cents
I Airport may expand in face of Ozark cuts
M I ByRegtaaMcEoery
M 1 Missourian staff writer
H I After hearing a recommendation for expan--
M a sion of the terminal building at Columbia Re- -
H j gional Airport, members of the Columbia Air- -
H m port Advisory Board were told the airport's
H a only scheduled carrier might lose its federal
M 1 subsidy in July.
H I Earlier, airport officials had expected the
M I federal subsidy to Ozark Air lines for its Co--
H i lumbia to St. Louis flights to continue at least
M I until 1984. However, with Congress moving
M 1 more quickly on budget cuts recommended by
fl I President Reagan, an acceleration of that sub- -
M M sidy rollback is considered a possibility.
M m Airline deregulation has been one of the main
thrusts of conservative efforts to reduce the
amount of government supervision of and sub-sidy
to American businesses.
Airport Manager A. O. " Pete" Cappadony, in
response to a question, acknowledged the Ozark
subsidy could end as early as July. However, he
said, even if the subsidy is dropped, Ozark is
not planning to abandon flights to Columbia.
He said he had talked to Ozark officials, who
said they had a strong interest in continuing
flights into Columbia because of traffic gener-ated
by the city's colleges as well as that gener-ated
by the state government offices at Jeffer-son
City.
The special meeting of the advisory board
was called Wednesday to hear officials of Horn-er
and Schifrin, a St. Louis engineering firm,
present its preliminary study recommending
that the Columbia Regional Airport terminal
building be extended 5,663 square feet ( 509.65
square meters).
The preliminary report didn't seek to put a
pricetag on the expansion. However, in the air-port's
five- ye- ar plan, the expansion was bud-geted
for $ 750,000.
The firm's recommendations were based on
its evaluation of space in the existing facility as
well as interviews with companies that operate
from the airport.
Specifically, Ozark Air Lines and Air Mid-west,
the two airlines that fly out of the airport,
requested additional space. The extra area, to-taling
1,880 square feet ( 169 square meters),
would provide for each a two- positi- on ticket
counter, access to the main ticket lobby, an of-fice,
baggage room, direct access to the apron,
and additional storage space.
The rental car agencies, National Car Rental,
Avis and Hertz, requested an additional 300
square feet ( 27 square meters) for offices.
The engineering firm also recommended ad-ditional
space be allocated for a permanent
gate lounge and security screening area, a sec-ond
commuter facility, handicapped restroom
facilities, circulation space and an associated
utility area.
In addition, the firm recommended that the
present airport restaurant be moved and ex-panded
to accommodate the handicapped.
Presently, the restaurant is accessible only by
a staircase with no provision for the hand- -
icapped as required by law. Horner & Schifrin I
suggested that, if the restaurant remained in its B
present location, an elevator be installed.
The board didn't question the need for ex-- 1
panded terminal space and promised to issue a
list of priority areas that should be included in
the proposed addition. I
The report recommended the expansion al-- 1
though it noted that flights in and out of Colum- - 1
bia have dropped in recent years. From 1978 to
1980, the number of passengers processed
through the airport dropped 34 percent. Airport
traffic has picked up somewhat since the end of
the Ozark strike.
Despite the prospect of an end to the Ozark 5
subsidy, Cappadony said expanded facilities at
the airport would help business pick up further. I i Repression
: can result
m I in amnesia
K - ; m But trauma, illness
HI : m also affect memory I ' r--' H By Karen Ervln H Missourian staff writer
H M Mark was an outstanding citizen in H H his home community in Missouri. H s& He had a good job and attended H church regularly. He married his high H II school sweetheart, and together they I H were rearing a charming family. But
H Hf one day, Mark disappeared. H eg His wife called the local police, who H found his car abandoned outside the I iH cy lhnits. For sue weeks they
H KS searched for him, and, at the end of
that time, they found him, curled in a
fetal position beneath a pew in his
church. He was muttering a man's
name, saying he had to till turn.
Mark was suffering a form of amne-sia
called multiple personality. Al-though
his family and community I knew him by one name, a business as-sociate
in a different city knew him by
the
church.
name Mark was muttering in the
According to Dr. Ahmed Faheem,
chief of the general psychiatry section
and assistant profassor c psychiatry
at Truman Veterans Hospital, amnesia -
I Inslg& t
I has several forms and several degrees I lip of severity.
III " The memory has three different I Mil components," says Dr. Fahsem.
H " First, it registers an event through I HI perception. Then it retains that infor- - I IIS mation, either for long-- or short- ter- m I WM use, depending on its significance. I HI " Finally, it has the ability to pull out I ! that information for recall when it is I associated with an ongoing event If a I III person has difficulty in the recall com- - I : M ponent, he has some form of amnesia." I ' M Amnesia can be of two types or--
M jM ganic or dissociative. I $ m Organic amnesia usually occurs I lH when there is a change in the metabo- - I W& lism or other organic insult to the I 1 brain. It may be caused by a concus-- I j sion, degeneration of brain tissue ( se--
Bk M nility), epilepsy, or drug3 and alcohol.
Hi The organic amnesia often develops B W& slowly and is less dramatic than the n i dissociative variety.
HI H The distinguishing factor in organic
I III amnesia is that orientation is impaired
HI HI for recent events. Appointments may
W i be missed, or things may be easily
Sg misplaced. Paranoia can occur if the
( M individual can't dearly appreciate his
jjjjl& k fM environment, and these sufferers often
Bjk. B feel more comfortable talking about
fflsk HI the past than the present
ssl!!!!! 1 " Organic amnesia must be severe to lllllljjl get at the long- ter- m memory," says
JJIHf j Dr. Faheem. " That is why older people
terfgjxjr W$ who suffer from this talk about the P HI past a lot They are more comfortable
with it and remember tt much better."
HI Dissociative amnesia, on the other
ill hand, has no physiological or pathclog- -
WM ical reason for occurring. Usually the 3fIII individual has problems with events or
111 feelings that are painful and represses
llll them to avoid any anxiety they may
WM Mark' 3 multiple personality was a pp dissociative form cf amnesia. As a 0. W young man, his strong urge for adven-- ii ffp ture often caused problems with his
m$ Wm family. When he entered the military
ffla WM service, he had the freedom to expen- -
1 S ment with many lifestyles. After he re--
Hlf WM, turned home, he suppressed his wild
Wm B urges and settled down to a job and a
U To Mark, life was black and white.
11 He couldn't live out bis fantasies and
11 maintain his image as a pious, gener--
ous family man at the same time. He
m adopted a second personality mat aV--
ff lowed him to forget those resptBt'ibui- -
-- M ties and return to the lifestyle he had
wj maintained in the service.
jjH " Dissociative amnesia victfa3 as- -
3$ sume they have forgotten about events pi in their livu, but they hsra just put a
. jg lid on them," says Dr. Faheem. " Of- -
yM tuepn, aganaiont, hebrutgd& meilapreresvoenntwwililllwbipriengthiet
ifS memory out and, to hmx it seems as if
Hi ( See DREAM- LIK- E, Page 8A)
tm
The mother of slain Northern Ireland consta-ble
Gary Martin comforts a young relative
outside the church in Bangor where funeral
Prisoners
atrophic;
skirmishes
hit Ulster
UP! telcsbotss
BELFAST, Northern Ireland ( AP) Jailed Irish Re-publican
Army guerrilla Bobby Sands was reported " de-teriorating
at an alarming rate" Thursday, and his moth-er
promised to let him die of starvation rather than
compromise. Britain refused to give in and warned it
would use all means available against violence.
Young Catholics lobbed gasoline and acid bombs at po-lice
patrols and set vehicles afire as Pope John Paul H's
special envoy, the Rev. John Magee, left for Rome after
Sands and three other jailed guerrillas rejected the ponti-ffs
appeal to end their hunger strike.
British officials reported Sands, without food for 61
days, and IRA guerrilla Francis Hughes, who joined the
fast 46 days ago, were both " deteriorating at an alarming
rate." Two other guerrillas, Raymond McCreesh and Pat
O'Hara, joined the strike 39 days ago demakiding political- statu- s
on grounds they were convicted in their fight to
drive the British from Northern Ireland.
As death neared for Sands, his mother, Kosaleen,
services were held Thursday. Below, fellow
members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary
bear the victim's coffin.
emerged from visiting her son in the Maze Prison near
Belfast and said he was " prepared for the end." Sands
told her not to let doctors try to save his life when he
slipped into a coma unless Britain granted the guerril-las'
demands for political prisoner status.
In London, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher reiter-ated
her tough line in the House of Commons and said,
" There can be no question of granting political status to
convicted criminals now or at all."
Britain's Northern Ireland secretary Humphrey Atkins
said the Provisional wing of the outlawed IRA was pursu-ing
a " calculated, cold- blood- ed campaign.. . to enable
them to exercise control of Catholic area and present
themselves as alone capable of protecting threatened peo-ple."
Atkins said the IRA had plans to evacuate residents in
one area of Belfast, gut their vacant houses and blame
" others" to stir up more sectarian fear and violence.
Fluids restored
ByL. Trager
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY Temporarily
at least, Ellis Fischel State Cancer
Hospital has found itself an able cham-pion
in the joust for state funds.
The state House had approved a 1981- 8- 2
budget proposal $ 554,000 below this
year's allocation for the hospital, but
Thursday the Senate Appropriations
Committee " reinstated $ 370,000 to its
version of the spending plan.
Committee Chairman Sen. Edwin
Dirck, D- S- t. Ann, carried Ellis Fis-chers
case to the panel.
" They're adequately funded from
the Senate," he said of the hospital's
revised budget. " They were not ad-equately
funded from the House."
A hospital spokesman said Fischel
officials will make no comment until
the budget clears the Legislature.
If the Senate committee proposal be-comes
law, the Columbia facility will
get about 94 percent of the state money
it received this year. The House ver-sion,
passed earlier this month, would
cut Fischel's state funding by about 17
percent , ,
The " difference reflects varying
views on how much the hospital can in-crease
bill collection from patients, in-surance
companies and government
programs. The pouse proposal as-sumes
the hospital can collect more
money owed it, allowing it to maintain
its budget with less state help.
" The House and the governor ex-pected
too much of ( Fischel) when
they established the appropriation,"
Dirck said. " We certainly expect them
to make every effort to collect The
problem is, they deal with a lot of indi-gent
people, sometimes people who've
exhausted all Medicaid funds."
Dirck took Gov. Christopher Bond's
budget recommendation, calling for a
10 percent cut in state money, as ine
starting point for calculations. UircK i reduced by $ 100,000 the amount the
hospital would have to raise from bill 1
collection, renewing that amount of 1
state funds. 1
Under the Senate committee propos-- ' J
al, Fischel's spending for staff travel, I Ig
vehicle purchases and office expenses i
were cut about $ 36,000. That is " really 111
negligible in terms of the total bud-- e
get" and similar reductions are being V
made throughout state government, '
said Ken McClure, committee staff di-rector.
Committee members, working
quickly and informally in anticipation
of a long weekend, silently accepted
Dirck's suggestions on the hospital's 5
funding.
The committee recommendation will 1
probably go to the Senate floor next
week. Any differences between Senate
and House figures would have to be re--
solved by a conference committee. 5
" The figure we came out with is a
solid one," Dirck said, " and the House
knows it."
Regardless c the budget battle's i
ootctana. FlftcJKiisbcsindtDlOEenjcre P
than 30 " phantom" employees with I
nine or 10 years' " seniority."
" For some reason, for a good num-ber
of years, they've had 32 more ( in
the total of full- tim- e employees) than
they've had on the payroll," Dirck
said.
The state hasn't been giving the hos-pital
money for this " paper" staff, but
the discrepancy is " deceiving in pre-paring
the budget," Dirck said.
The committee discovered the error
when it took an especially hard look at
agency operations this year. How the
phantoms got on the books is a mys-tery.
" These people just don't exist and
never have," Dirck said. " We can't I
quite track down whathappened."
Camcer I
Laetrile study discounts cure claims
WASHINGTON ( AP) - The first
government- controlle- d human tests of
the purported cancer treatment Lae-trile
shows that it " has not produced
any substantial benefit," scientists
said Thursday.
" Laetrile has been tested. It is not ef-fective,"
Dr. Charles Moertel of the
Mayo Clinic told the meeting of the
American Society of Clinical Oncology.
The trial, sponsored by the National
Cancer Institute, hoped to settle de-cades
of controversy surrounding Lae-trile
and its usefulness in treating can-cer.
Moertel said that of 160 patients stud-ied,
104 died during the trial. In only
one case was there a partial response
to the treatment, and that response
was questionable.
Moertel said that Laetrile produced
no substantial benefits, proving inef-fective
in extending life span, relieving
symptoms or improving the outcome
of patients.
Five institutes are taking part in the I
$ 500,000 study with the Mayo Clinic of
Rochester, Minn., organizing the test 1
procedures. 1
Animal tests generally show Lae- - 1
trile, made from the pits of apricots
and other fruits and nuts, is ineffective E
against cancer, be said. And most doc-- i
tors and scientists also don't think it
works, he added.
But Laetrile has been used by hun-dreds
of thousands of persons, with
many testifying to its benefits. DeVita
said many sensible people are con-fused
by the differences between these
claims and scientific opinion.
The VS. Food and Drug Administra-tion
is trying to bar the use of Laetrile,
saying its safety and effectiveness is
unproven. But at the same time 23
states have approved its use within
their borders.
By Janice Kabaar
BStesearian ctaff writer
An international team of anthropolo-gists
led by University anthropology
professor Robert Benfer has excavated
the oldest known village in the Western
Hemisphere on the ban- en- , central
coast of Peru.
' Paloma is the only place in the
world where anybody has excavated a
whole series of such ancient skele-tons,"
said Benfer, who has been in-volved
in the project since 1976. " It's
not just an isolated burial here and an-other
isolated burial there. We have
skeletons of children. We have whole
families buried in a house."
The recovered human skeletons,
some as old as 7,700 years, are so well
preserved that Benfer's team was able
to suggest that the people who settled
the site, Paloma, knew how to manipu-late
plants, a term used by anthropolo-gists
to describe a stage that falls short
of cultivation. Until Benfer's discovery
researchers believed people who
formed the earliest villages were hunt-ers
and gatherers who left overpop- ulate- d
highlands.
Preservation at the site is so com-plete
that many of more than 220 skele-tons
excavated from 56 houses have
skin, hair and intestinal contents in-tact,
allowing the scientists to deter-mine
what foods the people ate.
Prior to this finding, the oldest hu-man
skeletons in the Western. Hemi-sphere
were some 3,500- 6,00- 0 years old
discovered in Southern California and
northern Mexico.
Benfer's fellow researcher, Freder-ick
A. Engel, originally discovered the
site. Benfer and Engel started their as-sociation
in 1970, when Benfer ap-proached
the National Science Founda-tion
for a grant for further exploration
of the Paloma site. Before that time,
Benfer and a group of graduate stu-dents
were studying the skeletons Eng-el
had found at another site.
Glendon Weir, an anthropologist and
botanist from Texas A& M University,
analyzed plants from the site. Engel,
Weir and University anthropologist Al-ice
Benfer, Benfer's former wife,
served as co- investiga- tors on excava-tions
that began in 1976.
Benfer and the team began the ex-ploration
believing the people of Palo- -
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ma were hunter- gathere- rs and fishers.
The evidence preserved for centuries
by the totally dry, arid climate makes
it probable that the villagers were in-corporating
not only wild plants but
peanuts, squash and peppers into their
diet as many as 5,000 years ago.
People occupied Paloma in at least
three periods separated by several
hundred years dating about 43, 55 and
77 or more centuries ago. Yet burials,
made in houses where the people lived,
were almost never disturbed, he said.
The archaeologically important find-ings
bold special interest for the Pe-ruvian
government. A grant for $ 110,- 00- 0
from the National Science
Foundation has been awarded to Benf-er
and Weir to continue analysis of
their data.
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